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Binary Analysis Cookbook

You're reading from   Binary Analysis Cookbook Actionable recipes for disassembling and analyzing binaries for security risks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807608
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Lab 2. 32-bit Assembly on Linux and the ELF Specification FREE CHAPTER 3. 64-bit Assembly on Linux and the ELF Specification 4. Creating a Binary Analysis Methodology 5. Linux Tools for Binary Analysis 6. Analyzing a Simple Bind Shell 7. Analyzing a Simple Reverse Shell 8. Identifying Vulnerabilities 9. Understanding Anti-Analysis Techniques 10. A Simple Reverse Shell With Polymorphism 11. Another Book You May Enjoy

Performing discovery

Here's the scenario. Your File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) tool alerted you that a new file was written to disk on one of your servers. Other than that, you don't have visibility into anything else associated with this file except its name. Unfortunately, the FIM agent only recorded its name and not its location on disk right before the agent crashed. To start down the path of analyzing this file, we'll use some of our discovery phase tools to locate this file on disk so that we can copy the file to our 32-bit Ubuntu virtual machine lab.

In this recipe, we will use a few of the tools we learned about in the previous chapter to locate the file on disk to prepare it for transfer to our lab. Now, it should be obvious, but we'll use our imagination a bit and actually use these tools on the 32-bit Ubuntu virtual machine we created in Chapter...

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